Light Light is Sweet

Light

Light is Sweet

When the sun is shining in your life enjoy the sweetness

Don’t let the clouds get you down

In all you do honor the Lord and remember this

“The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

The difference is the one who has the umbrella” WMS

While you enjoy the sweetness of the sun

Keep in mind some day you and I will be in a climate

Where the Son of Righteousness will shine 100% of the time

If we honor God with the life we have in this worldly climate

Living that kind of life is not meaningless

Light is Sweet

Light is sweet, and it

pleases the eyes to see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:7

Matthew 5:45 says…

 Our Father in heaven

“causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good,

and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

In Toledo, we are below average in sunny days.

The average sunny days in the US

are 205, but we in Toledo get 180.

That means we don't see the sun185 days,

over 50% of our days in Toledo.

Of the 180 days, 107 of them are partly sunny,

 leaving us with only 73 sunny days a year.

That means we get 292 days a year

 where there is no sun or partial sun.

I miss the sweetness of light.

I love to see the sun, so much so, in the

winter months I take my wife to Florida.

Where in Tampa they get 246 sunny days a year

and in the winter their days are longer.

I think Solomon lived in a climate like Toledo.

However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all.

But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many.

Everything to come is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Solomon searched for the meaning in life.

You and I do the same, yet not

with the same bank account.

When the sun is shining and your

enjoying the day, life is sweet.

But every day is not like

that sweetness of light…

 It is not always shining.

There are days of darkness.

Days we planned a sunny vacation on

the beach and it rained all week long.

Just like the weather does not always cooperate,

 so also are the days of sadness.

It is all a part of the climate of this world.

Solomon advises us to enjoy our youth…

Enjoy the sunny days.

Because as we get older more clouds come in.

But…

 However many years a man

may live, let him enjoy them all.

In our efforts to enjoy life, Solomon

reminds us to remember our Creator.

Remember…

 “God will bring you to judgment.”

Solomon concludes his search for meaning in

life with these words at the end of Ecclesiastes…

Now all has been heard;

here is the conclusion of the matter:

Fear God and keep his commandments,

for this is the whole [duty] of man.

 For God will bring every deed into judgment,

including every hidden thing,

whether it is good or evil.

Ecclesiastes 12:13,14

So when the sun is shining in your life…

 Enjoy the sweetness.

Don’t let the clouds get you down.

In all you do honor the

Lord and remember this…

“The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

The difference is the one who has the umbrella”

WMS

While you enjoy the sweetness of the sun

keep in mind some day you and I

will be in a climate where the Son of

Righteousness will shine 100% of the

time if we honor God with the life

we have in this worldly climate.

Living that kind of life is not meaningless.

Scripture Reading

Ecclesiastes11:7-10 NIV

7 Light is sweet,

and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.

8 However many years a man may live,

let him enjoy them all.

But let him remember the days of darkness,

for they will be many.

Everything to come is meaningless.

9 Be happy, young man, while you are young,

and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.

Follow the ways of your heart

and whatever your eyes see,

but know that for all these things

God will bring you to judgment.

10 So then, banish anxiety from your heart

and cast off the troubles of your body,

for youth and vigor are meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 NIV

13 Now all has been heard;

here is the conclusion of the matter:

Fear God and keep his commandments,

for this is the whole [duty] of man.

14 For God will bring every deed into judgment,

including every hidden thing,

whether it is good or evil.